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Friday, September 19, 2025

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States is trying to "get back" the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan ...

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"One of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it's an hour away from where China," the president said.

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-- Newsweek (@newsweek.com) Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Dummkopf Trumpf and Marco Rubella did nothing to help Afghanistan after its recent devastating earthquake. In fact, Trumpf's destroying USAID hurt the people of Afghanistan: sg.news.yahoo.com

Moreover, Trumpf initially made this suggestion about "retaking Bagram AB" months ago at one of his first cabinet meetings: orionpolicy.org

So how "could this be a little breaking news" as he driveled?

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 04:32 AM | Reply

"Hemos venido a verle para saber de este pas, para leer un libro sobre l y para que nos ensee mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos ensee libros"."
Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 05:10 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#2: prodimage.images-bn.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 06:39 AM | Reply

Stinky is proud of his impressive track record of snuffing out pregnant Afghani women.

www.bbc.com

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-19 08:23 AM | Reply

"Trump said during a press conference in the United Kingdom that his plan was to leave Afghanistan with "strength and dignity" and keep the air base, which he described as "one of the biggest airbases in the world."
"We gave it to them for nothing,"

Someone should remind the senile old fool that he's the one who gave it up in the first place. It was his administration that negotiated the exit from Afghanistan.

#5 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-19 05:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

What's Trump going to do, turn Bagram into an ICE detention camp?

OCU

#6 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-09-19 06:21 PM | Reply

Someone should remind the senile old fool that he's the one who gave it up in the first place.

I was quite surprised that they gave that base up.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-19 06:30 PM | Reply

Anything but releasing the Epstein files

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-19 06:47 PM | Reply

Seems pretty dumb for him to tell this to the world. He said during the presser that we want it because it's near where China is building nukes. By stating this publicly he gave China reason to up the pressure on Afghanistan to reject turning over the base to US. He also gave Afghanistan leverage in negotiations with us because if he's going to look like a failure if we do not receive the base.

#9 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-19 06:52 PM | Reply

Donald Trump is mentally ill.

Virtually every single thing he does is disorganized.

Argument?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-19 06:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Is the decomposing------------- going to invite the taliban to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11 again?

nypost.com

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-19 09:24 PM | Reply

www.nytimes.com

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-19 09:27 PM | Reply

Big Bad Wolf: "The better to eat you with, my dear."

#13 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-09-20 03:14 AM | Reply

Trump is back to putting targets on the back of our military personnel, this won't end well. I'd be willing to bet, were it his butt there, he'd likely be wanting to leave it behind. As long as it is what he considers losers, he doesn't mind. This again speaks tons of his mentality and mental illness.

It's never really planned, it's pretty much always on the spur of the moment with no consideration of how it effects the future.

#14 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-09-20 07:18 PM | Reply

What happened to buying Greenland?

------- demented pile of Nazi horse ----.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-20 08:37 PM | Reply

Disorganized"

Yes, on purpose.

I remember when he used to create chaos among his own staff because he thought it kept them on their toes. Now he's expanded that same meme to creating chaos all over the world because it makes him feel important while he sits back and watches like he's a spectator at a dog fight.

Everything Trump does is for himself and nobody else. It's how he gets his jollies.

And to quote his niece, Mary Trump, about Trump's insecurity, "Too Much and Never Enough."

#16 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-09-20 09:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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